Handsome Deviant

ANGELA

Bodies' secondary schooling was at St. Mark's College Bedford, a private all- boys school and he was in the top 10% in the country upon completing his Tertiary Entrance Examination. His preferences at the four major universities were in the area of English, Law, Economics and Psychology but between the end of the school year in November and New Year's Eve he had changed his mind about continuing education and instead started scouring the employment section of The 'West Australian Newspaper'. His love of the outdoors eventually led him to a successful application as a Deckhand on a Prawn Trawler and he spent the first six months after finishing school on a 60 foot vessel off the coast of Carnarvon a few hundred kilometres north of Perth. He quickly acquired the skills of catching, sorting, cooking and freezing Prawns, Scallops and a vast assortment of fish.

The Skipper of the vessel was an alcoholic and a bottle of Scotch was his constant companion. The Engineer had a large collection of hard-core pornographic magazines on board which he rented out to the crew for seven dollars per magazine a week. The Cook, a German backpacker, doubled as an on-board prostitute. During the six months on board this vessel, Hilda offered her services to Bodie several times. She was not unattractive but having to pay for sex which he had been getting for free since the age of 16 was not appealing at all. Additionally, the thought of having to share her with the rest of the crew was not overly appetising. As much as his lack of interest disappointed Hilda, she was kept suitably busy outside of her cooking duties by the rest of the crew.

Bodie was also not interested in paying 'rent' for accessing Glen's hard-core porn mags. In any event, Bodie had progressed two years earlier past the point where magazine porn stimulated him adequately enough. Although he did find some 'Toon' porn entertaining and funny to look at occasionally.

Bodie was the eldest boy. His brother, John, was two years younger and he had two older sisters Belinda and Alana. His mates at school all had older brothers and he remembers at soccer training one evening, when he was fourteen, one of his teammates produced a centrefold from a Playboy magazine. He had stolen it from his older brother's stash. The playmate on the centrefold was ridiculously good looking, almost plastic-like and her huge breasts had been generously enhanced by silicone. Most of the team were 'oohing' and 'ahhing' about how hot she looked but to Bodie, she was no more sexy or hot than many of the other girls he had seen on the beach, or fully clothed in his mum's 'Woman's Weekly' magazine.

Bodies' interpretation of beauty and sexiness had always been different from his mates. When it came to his attraction to girls, Bodie was primarily interested in what was going on in their minds together with their actions. Even from an early age, how they looked played only a minor role in the attraction, the spark that stimulated his senses. Except the eyes. A girl had to make eye contact with Bodie before he fully engaged his interest. A persons' eyes always gave away a part of who they are, or who they want to be and that all-important few seconds, from the moment their eyes meet yours, is what defines the level of attraction and interest.

This is what happened with Angela Toffoli at the very beginning in Grade One at St, Pauls, a private coed to grade three Catholic Primary School in the suburb of Bedford. Angela was the eldest daughter of Joe and Maria Toffoli and her younger sister Fiona would also go to the same school. That first day started in a memorable way. His grade one teacher was Sister Gabriel, a short, portly middle-aged nun in the classical black and white habit. Apart from her hands and feet, her chubby face peered out from the only space not covered by the head to toe tunic. Before class began in the mornings, all the children had to line up single file in their classes, and a small bottle of milk was passed out to each child, courtesy of the government's then health policy. Angela was standing behind Bodie in the line and when he turned to look at her she gave him the biggest smile and her beautiful, big brown eyes were twinkling directly back into his. He was mesmerized by the instant connection they had, confirmed by her many years later when they reunited after an eight year separation. This was brought on by circumstances that neither had any control over.